EVE General Discussion

They're only implants. HTFU and fly RedSpace!

I think my head might explode from a revelation like this.

But then I might lose my own implants.

The biggest problem with NPC corps is they're not all the same, some are quiet and some are more active. So you could go from a corp you find acceptable to one where you might as well be in a solo corp. Better the devil you know than the one you don't. Why should people have to take that risk just for a JC.

Get a jump clone and install +4's then?

You were right to reconsider. Attribute implants are the wrong thing to take into a combat situation -- you need high grade slaves. Get an offgrid booster, then upgrade your rifter to a fleet of battleships and make sure your triage and batphones are primed. Warp to the lowsec gate, pop your boosters, do a last locator check on hostile fleet commanders and finally jump the gate. If you encounter a deadly pirate gatecamp you will have a mere 30 heart-pounding seconds to prioritize targets and assign a target call order. With the right preparation you will survive. If, in the overwhelming likely event that there is nothing on the other side of the gate, warp to station and dock up. You have now completed the "lowsec experience". You may now return to highsec with your achievement.

you seem very upset for no reason what so ever.

It has not changed, you won't be able to get back to RMS.

But then, you are 8 month old - it really isn't that long (or hard) to get to 8.0 standing with one corp. E.g. you can easily get 8.0 with RMS in less than a month, just create an alt account and rerun the tutorials a couple of times while being fleeted.

And then, there are several people offering free Rorqual clones - no standing required.

Finally, you should not put in your head what you cannot afford to lose. If you put 5's in your head, either have another 500 millions lying around or be ready to buy another PLEX when you get podded. If that's a big deal for you then you should not be flying with them. (And you can get podded in high-sec also.)

No. When I go out to roam in low-sec I don't worry about my implants because losing a pod in low- or high-sec is a very rare and specific circumstance unless you're a complete idiot.

As time went by I also just gave up on the whole worry about training times. I think the real switch to not caring was when I got an LG Slave set (I'm poor) for PvP. I'd end up sitting in that because we'd roam every other night and the JC timer was too much of a bother. Before that I switched to +3s because I'd lost a full set of +4s in a bubble camp and I was doing a bunch of WH work.

After a point you realize that these worries may be an impediment to your fun and they're kind of stupid. Or they could constitute part of the fun in the game for you, in which case you lose out on other certain parts of the game. vOv

EDIT : Because the math was effectively ALL WRONG!

My first podding in W-space, I lost my head full of +5 learning implants. From then on, I just use +4 implants. I get 2610 SP/hr instead of 2700 SP/hr for my primary attribute. I probably lose more than the difference between the two by just being careless and inattentive to my skill plan, and breaks that I've taken over the years.

If you want to fly dangerously and take risks, do it. Replace what you lose, no big deal.
If you don't, just admit it and stop making excuses.
You're not impressing anyone by trying to appear tough.